boggy man seeks swamp lady for daring deeds of derring do and a bit of crucifixion.

Is jesus eccentric?

harry potter is jewish and so is that bald guy from little britain

It's not worth the bother of looking. The Koran was written so many centuries after Jesus' death that it is patently absurd to recommend it as a historical source on the subject.

So far as I am aware, the only credible contemporary report that even mentions Jesus comes from a Jewish historian of the period called Josephus. It tells you little about Jesus, but is sufficient evidence for reasonable belief that at the very least he did exist.

The story of the census in the Bible was almost certainly an attempt to retrofit the life story of a man from Nazareth to a well known Jewish prophecy which required the son of God to be born in Bethlehem. The very idea of sending people to their home towns to be counted makes no sense at all, it undermines the purpose of a census (to know where your tax payers live, and what they own, so that you know whose door to knock on and how much to demand). Such a policy would also have been more than enough to spark a revolt in what was at the time one of the empire's most combustible provinces.

It's not worth the bother of looking. The Koran was written so many centuries after Jesus' death that it is patently absurd to recommend it as a historical source on the subject.

So far as I am aware, the only credible contemporary report that even mentions Jesus comes from a Jewish historian of the period called Josephus. It tells you little about Jesus, but is sufficient evidence for reasonable belief that at the very least he did exist.

The story of the census in the Bible was almost certainly an attempt to retrofit the life story of a man from Nazareth to a well known Jewish prophecy which required the son of God to be born in Bethlehem. The very idea of sending people to their home towns to be counted makes no sense at all, it undermines the purpose of a census (to know where your tax payers live, and what they own, so that you know whose door to knock on and how much to demand). Such a policy would also have been more than enough to spark a revolt in what was at the time one of the empire's most combustible provinces.[/quote]

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i am glad someone else is getting there or maybe has arrived
religion is nothing more then organised gang membership based on fairy tales

but it doesn't change one fact the Vatican is based in Rome
all roads lead to Rome ...

So what happened between being born and being crucified. A bloody big gap year.

Carpentry, I would suspect. There is talk that he travelled - and even came to this country. So, maybe he was leading the student life doing the Roman equivalent of InterRailing. I hope he had to share a youth hostel with a tramp and a hippy with bongos. Maybe that’s why he went home.

It strikes me that a lot of these religions seem to involve deserts and the symptoms of nervous collapse in their primary characters. Apparently, there were a lot of claimants to the epithet “Son of God” at the time. Maybe there was something in the water. Lead from Roman plumbing may have done it.

Interestingly, there's at least two places that claim to be the final burial place of Jesus - one in Kashmir and the other in Japan.
http://www.tombofjesus.com/ (Kashmir)
http://www.thiaoouba.com/tomb.htm (Japan)

There are several pre-christian religions that had a 'son of god' who had apparently died and then come back to life.

You could even argue the idea of a single deity goes back to Akhenaten in Egypt about 2000 years BC (irony intended).